Businessman Quotes

• My dad wanted me to be a businessman, but I felt that wasn't for me.

  

  Vincent Rodriguez III
  • Dad
  • Felt
  • Businessman

• No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Men
  • Business
  • Wonder

• You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Giving

• The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Wisdom
  • Golf
  • Businessman

• If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

  

  Dan Seals
  • Believe
  • President
  • Addiction

• Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Freedom
  • Writer
  • Talker

• I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Capitalism
  • Enjoyed
  • Regulation

• I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Good Job

• I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Business
  • Contract
  • Pollytician

• You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Dream
  • Dreamer
  • Businessman

• I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Money
  • Business
  • Deal

• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Law
  • Should
  • Facts

• Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

  

  George Gallup
  • Attention
  • Instrument
  • Merely

• I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Worried
  • Buying

• America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • Tradition
  • Failing
  • Conservative

• You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Waiting
  • Actresses
  • Brands

• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Entrepreneur

• Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

  

  Michio Kaku
  • Listening
  • Politician
  • Massage

• I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Businessman
  • Promote
  • Alienate

• Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Desire
  • Businessman
  • Creative Person

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Night
  • Laughs
  • Monologue

• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  

  Benjamin A. Rogge
  • Money
  • College
  • Ministry

• The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Desire
  • Competition
  • Liberty

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